December 2014

I couldn’t play Alien: Isolation at night. The notion of being alone, in a dark room, in an empty house, while going through a game where I’m also alone, in dark rooms and corridors, in an almost-deserted space station, hit too close to home. Especially since both had an invader. In Alien: Isolation, it was a

Hot, young stars and cosmic pillars of gas and dust seem to crowd into NGC 7822. At the edge of a giant molecular cloud toward the northern constellation Cepheus, this glowing star forming region lies about 3,000 light-years away. Within the nebula, bright edges and complex dust sculptures dominate this detailed skyscape taken

The constellation of Orion holds much more than three stars in a row. A deep exposure shows everything from dark nebula to star clusters, all embedded in an extended patch of Alnitak, the lowest of the excited hydrogen gas and immersed in filaments of dark brown dust. Below and left of the frame center and just to the